September 30: Chuong
Tran & Ken Hayes - Evolutionary Genetics and Invasives - There
are two papers this week. The first is a review paper which contains some
interesting material regarding genetic theory as it applies to invasive species.
The second deals with loss of genetic diversity that results in invasion success.

Further Reading: These are two papers
that are related to the discussion topic of the first two weeks. The first is on invasion success
and genetic diversity, and the other is a simulation study to investigate mechanisms
(epistasis versus dominance) acting to increase genetic variance after a
bottleneck.. I am posting them here just for further reading, but if anyone really wants to discuss
them we can.

Further Reading: At this week's
discussion their were questions regarding SSCP and how it is done. So, I've put
up two papers that give some more details. The first is the paper that
originally described SSCP (or at least one of the first) and the other is a more
recent paper that applies it to mtDNA as this week's paper did.